TSK · Colossians 1:24

They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.